DYING FOR

Desire

Eager, avid, keen; burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog; breathless; impatient; (impetuous); bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire.

Crosswords: DYING FOR

They'll literally be dying for me. (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Worth dying for. (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; writing credit: Pen Densham)

When it comes to dying for country, it's better not to die at all. (All Quiet on the Western Front; writing credit: Erich Maria Remarque; Maxwell Anderson)

Look at her just thinking every man's dying for her. (Cadillac Ranch; writing credit: Jennifer Cecil)

There're millions of other women who are just dying for you to look their way. (Maid in Manhattan; writing credit: Kevin Wade)

It's not me you're dying for (Brick; performing artist: Ben Folds Five)

I'm dying for some action I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write (DANCING IN THE DARK; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

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Books

• 3 Culinary Mysteries: An Audio Book Trilogy of Best Sellers: Dying for Chocolate/Catering to Nobody/the Last Suppers [ABRIDGED] (reference)

• Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor (reference)

• Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture) (reference)

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Dying for sex. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "DYING FOR": be dying for ♦ be dying for smth. ♦ dying for a smoke. Additional references.

Japanese Kanji 

殉国 (dying for one's country), 一死� �国 (dying for one's country). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いっしほう�"く (dying for one's country), じゅ�"�"く (dying for one's country). (various references)

Pig Latin

yingday orfay

Romanian

nu mai putea (be dying for smth., be dying to smth., bubble over, perish), muri de nerãbdare (be dying for smth., be dying to smth.). (various references)

Swedish

röksugen (dying for a smoke). (various references)

Turkish

can atmak (ache for, ache to, aspire, be dying for, crave, die for, hanker, have an itch to, itch, itch to, jump at, lick one's chops, long, look forward to, raring to, set one's heart on). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fording.

-2 letters: drying, fringy, frying.

-3 letters: dingo, dingy, doing, dying, fiord, frond, giron, gonif, grind, grody, groin, gyron, irony, ridgy, yogin.

-4 letters: ding, dogy, dong, dory, fido, find, fino, firn, fogy, foin, fond, ford, frig, frog, gird, girn, giro, gory, grid, grin, gyri, gyro, info, inro, iron, nodi, noir, nori, orgy, rind, ring, rynd.

+3 letters: bodysurfing, recodifying, remodifying.

+4 letters: forbiddingly, forebodingly, premodifying.

+5 letters: resolidifying.